Being curious about snowflakes and photography I looked up the first known photos – 1885 by a farmer named Wilson A.Bentley.
The don’t compare with those taken today but must have seemed a great wonder to all who viewed them.

Yes I watched a few videos when I was looking for ideas on how to photograph snowflakes. Really interesting. Kind of on the level of the chemist of the day, testing every compound known to man boiled, dried ,frozen. Never knowing what they would find.